Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-15-Speech-3-289"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-12-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20041215.10.3-289"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-15-Speech-3-2902
lpv:speaker	lp:Edward Mcmillan-scott2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, as the Commissioner will find, the European Parliament always has the last word. I am pleased that the Commission is beginning to examine the possibility of doing some work in Belarus. I mentioned Belarus, and also Tunisia and Iran: two other countries where nothing is happening. I am grateful for the good will and the commitment of the Commissioner in her new post, and we welcome her into it. I also welcome her commitment to establish some working-level cooperation between Parliament and the Commission. I advise the Commission that this week the European Parliament, through the good offices of the Human Rights Subcommittee, is commissioning a study by independent experts into the operation of this programme. It is something I asked for last year from the Commission, but it was unwilling to give it. This will be completed by February. May I make one final remark, since I know the Commissioner was in Rabat at the weekend and we are dealing with a vast and important agenda: the process of reform in the Middle East. When I began working on this report, the funds available from the European Initiative on Democracy and Human Rights to the entire Middle East were four per cent of the total. Given the circumstances of the last three years, that was an extraordinarily low figure. I am pleased the Commission is now adjusting that, and we need to refocus the programme. Notwithstanding what Mr Howitt said, we have strategic objectives and strategic priorities. I am pleased to see the Commission is now beginning to focus on those. I thank the Commissioner for her words and for her commitment, and we look forward to working together constructively and practically, but on the basis of equal interest in the development of democracy, particularly in our neighbourhood."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McMillan-Scott (PPE-DE ),"1 "rapporteur"1

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